319: Squirting Milky Fluid

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Get out your space pen and take the cat out of its hibernation chamber, because it’s time to take on the 1979 classic “Alien.” We discuss how the film cleverly layers sci-fi and horror movie conventions, discuss its initially slow pace, and speculate about the crew’s taste in underpants and footwear. Corporate android betrayals! Questionable parenting! Phallic concept art! Chest bursting! We break it all down.

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0:00.0	Two Incomparable T-shirts are on sale now. Total Party Kills Dragon and of course our number one draft pick.
0:05.6	A hooded skeleton. Get your t-shirts by September 30th by going to the incomparable.com slash shirt.
0:14.6	The incomparable.
0:18.8	Number 319.
0:23.3	September 2016.
0:27.2	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:32.0	We're going to talk about, it's actually kind of an old movie, but it's not old movie club.
0:35.8	It is, I have to say, by request, this has been on the schedule for a little while.
0:46.1	It's 1979's Alien classic sci-fi horror movie directed by Ridley Scott, starring Sigourney Weaver, many other interesting actors in this movie, too.
0:56.7	We're doing this episode in part because it's an awesome old scary sci-fi movie, and in part because Anthony Johnston demanded it. Anthony, welcome. Hello.
1:07.6	Hello, Jason. That's not our system. I had, I had your name right next to it for a long time and I'm like, okay, let's just, yeah, let's do it.
1:12.2	That's because I was listening, oh God, what, more than two years ago to another to another episode an earlier episode of the show and i wasn't even a podcaster at the time
1:17.8	and you and i had corresponded a little and you mentioned that oh we'll have to do aliens sometime
1:22.7	and i immediately emailed you at one a m from bed saying if you ever do that, I would love to be on
1:29.2	that episode. And so here we are. And the system works is what I'm saying. The wheels of podcasting
1:35.3	grind very slowly, but they do eventually reach this point. Also joining us to talk about alien,
1:41.0	Liz Miles. Hello. Hello. Is this like a regular episode? Yeah, it is. Wow. No, it's not. It's not because
1:48.0	you're on it. It's a very special episode. Because you're on it. It's on my list of like,
1:55.8	that's my bucket list thing. I can take that off now. We are changing lives in this episode,
2:00.8	is what I'm saying. There's momentous things happening
2:03.2	in this episode. Later, we'll have the dog draft will be happening. Anyway, Monty Ashley's also here. Hi, Monty.
2:10.6	Snoopy. Sorry, I mean. Hello. Hello. Save that pick. That's a good pick, though. Save that
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